Predicting ionospheric scintillation for satellite communications

Real-Time Ionospheric Scintillation Monitoring

As the millennium approaches we are faced with a period of increasing solar flux and intense ionospheric scintillation. Not only single-frequency, but also dualfrequency GPS measurements will be badly affected by deep scintillation, due to its temporal and spatial decorrelation characteristics. Using the scintillation observables derived from dual-frequency phase and signal-to-noise ratio measu...

B-Spline Model of Ionospheric Scintillation For – High Latitude Using In-situ Satellite Data

Evaluating GPS Receiver Robustness to Ionospheric Scintillation

Todd E. Humphreys is a research assistant professor in the department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. He will join the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in the Fall of 2009. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Utah State University and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineer...

A Review of Ionospheric Scintillation Models

This is a general review of the existing climatological models of ionospheric radio scintillation for high and equatorial latitudes. Trans-ionospheric communication of radio waves from transmitter to user is affected by the ionosphere which is highly variable and dynamic in both time and space. Scintillation is the term given to irregular amplitude and phase fluctuations of the received signals...

Inter-Satellite Communications for Small Satellite Systems

Small satellite technology has opened a new era in aerospace engineering by decreasing space mission costs, without greatly reducing the performance. The concept of formation flying using small satellites is becoming popular because of their potential to perform coordinated measurements of remote sensing space missions. The current state of art in satellite communications is a one hop link betw...